The Dead Dogs at Print Room, W2

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The British can’t get enough of Scandinavian crime thrillers, but that has been in the form of recent TV series. If you were thinking of, consequently, racing to catch this Norwegian play about a morose loner with murderous tendencies — stuck with his bland mum in a backwater — you might want to hold your horses. Or possibly flog them to death in your mind, rather than endure this torturously repetitive script by Jon Fosse (pronounced Yawn Forcer).

Played by a scraggy, dazed Danny Horn in Simon Usher’s chamber production, the depressed Young Man is obsessed with his pet mutt. It has